Management of Infantile diarrhoea through Unani oral rehydration fluids

ABSTRACT

Children are the indicators of development of our future, and diarrhoeal diseases among children is still a major health problem in developing countries. In India alone about 1.5 million children die of dehydration due to diarrhoea every year and are indicative of tragic symbol of inefficiency of our health care system. Greater tragedy behind this fact is that most of these deaths arc preventable not by sophisticated or expensive means but by simple and cheap Unani home remedies. Oral re-hydration therapy is considered as the best medical revolution and oral rehydration fluids prepared from homely available Unani drugs can play valuable role not only to control dehydration but also to check diarrhoeal episode, and help decrease needless diarrhoeal deaths. The topic is discussed in the paper at length